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Would love to get Omoruyi. A rotation of him & Sherrell at the 5 spot would be a massive upgrade over Pringle & Wague. We all know how much our frontcourt was an Achilles heel for us. I have no doubt that Oats will find a way to address that. Omoruyi would change our outlook immediately.

Now in my Alabama Basketball Fantasy Land, the guy I'm holding out hope for is Ryan Kalkbrenner. He still has a covid year left, and hasn't decided about using it or going pro. He's not super high on most mock drafts, and maybe he'll feel like he's done all he can do at Creighton. He's worked a bit on his 3 point shooting game, but we could certainly help him improve there. And he shores up every weakness we have around the basket. Adding Kalkbrenner & bringing Sears back would instantly make us the National Title favorites imo.

That's just a pipe dream though. I have know idea what his future intentions are. He probably won't transfer if he comes back, and he'd require a substantial NIL deal if he did. But if we were ever going to get into the tampering game with this new portal, I'd love to have someone in his ear right now.

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Link? What’s the average NET for their conference schedule?

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I couldn't find a good link for this, so I did this myself using a calculator and basic math. All decimals rounded down.

Average CSOS based on NET
Alabama - 62
Tennessee - 72

Average NET of conference opponents played twice (5 teams)
Alabama - 33
Tennessee - 69

Average NET of only AWAY games played in conf (9 games)
Alabama - 63
Tennessee - 83

LewEvansFan is welcome to double check my work, or provide his own link to whatever facts he gathered on the subject. I'm just here to post some numbers.

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Still waiting on you show us where you are getting your "facts" from on the head-to-head record for Pearl vs Oats. You started an idiotic thread a while back that stated Pearl lead the series at 5-3. Completely untrue. You stated again tonight on your own board that it was now tied at 5-5. Again, completely untrue.

This is Nate Oats fourth season as the Alabama coach. Auburn & Alabama play each other twice every year. Auburn & Alabama have not faced each other in the SEC tournament while Oats has been the head coach at Bama. Nor did Auburn ever face Buffalo while Oats was the head coach there for 4 seasons. So by simple math, we can all agree that Oats & Peal have coached against each other 8 times now, right?

Nate Oats now has a 5-3 advantage over Pearl. Despite your attempts to provide misinformation, those are the stats.

And additionally, Bruce Pearl has never had a winning record against a Nate Oats lead Bama team. Never. He lost the first game they matched up against each other. Pearl has tied the series at .500 multiple times now, but never has pulled ahead by even one game.

Would love for you to show anything that disproves what I've posted.

More big news. Kobe Brown is out tonight.

I'm still amazed at how good Mark Sears has been. We all wanted him & knew he could play, but damn I didn't think he'd be THIS good. I had tempered my expectations from all the previous small-school & juco transfers that we've brought in and them be so underwhelming (Michael Kessens, Ricky Tarrent, James Rojas, and so on). But he's been everything as advertised and then some. I thought he might struggle with the jump in the competition level in the SEC, but it's been the opposite. Having more talent around him has elevated his abilities from when he was at Ohio. He's damn near, if not already, a first team All-SEC caliber guard. Just an absolute grand slam of a transfer addition.

Does anybody know anything about why Darius Miles was not with the team tonight? Never even saw him on the bench in street clothes or anything.

We had three different opportunities right there. No excuse for that

Keon Ellis had a nice game for the Kings summer league team.

summer league standouts

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Keon Ellis, Sacramento Kings
In Sacramento’s 81-64 win over the Heat, Ellis finished with a team-leading 17 points while shooting 6-for-8 from the field and 5-for-5 from the free-throw line. But the Kings were more pleased with his work on the other end.

“What’s most impressive about Keon is his defense,” said Kings summer-league coach Jordi Fernandez. “He guards really hard, keeps his body in front of bodies and is long. He has a good feel for not getting hit on screens.”

Makes sense. The Kings signed Ellis to a two-way contract after he landed on the SEC’s All-Defensive Team during his senior season at the University of Alabama.

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 No need to panic but we need Rojas bad.

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If we are all clamoring for James Rojas to come back and save our season, then that is reason enough to panic alone.

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Who is the one in here who always screams we need to hire that Shelton State coach? Is it Cobra? ?

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Oh yeah, the Madonna Thompson advocate. I could be wrong, but wasn't that phil4bama?

Also, what ever happened to Gary Busey after the pron bomb? Did he make an alter on here yet? I miss reading his stuff. I thought he'd show back up with a Busey Gary username or something akin to that.